Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-07-08
TAKING IN AN ls1HMUs GAMBLER
A Mar from the Bowery Tries HIS Hand
at Roulette In Panama.

- ~ W. AAE
at Roulette In Panama.
Ever since the beginning Of the canal
work on the Isthmus hundreds Of gam-
blers and thieves have been flocking 10
this city from all parts Of the world.
There Is no end of money here In the
hands of the canal contractors and EN-
ployes, and every kind Of gambling is
carried on by the sharpers to relieve them
Of IL. The lottery here, whose drawing Is
every Sunday, has made one of the pro-
prietors, an old Panama railroad man,
rich. He is getting his money together
and is going back to the United States to
live. An old New York gambler, who
used to frequent the ST. James hotel bar
room a great deal, says he is playing the
chance of dying of the Chagres fever
against 100000. II he lives only six
months, he says, he will be back In New
York with the Doodle. He adds that when
a mar is over so he can afford to take this
kind of chance. He came here to die OF
make his play, and he is getting in his
work with rapidity. He looks like q
winner.
There is always something new coming
Oh, for many of the gamblers, especially
those from London and New York, are
very Ely" The other day the steamer
from New York brought down o ''surt
thing man." who, for some time past, has
been working the passengers ON the Eng
lish steamer lines. Too much Bowery
dissipation had got him on the sick list
and he vas on his way to San francisco
for his health. He was here just two
hours. One of them he spent in looking
at the old town and feeding the pelicans
and gulls in the bay with biscuits soaked
in cognac. He then lounged into the big
gambling hell on the Plaza and watched
the Frenchmen's reckless play at roulette.
The game wa in full blast and the layout
covered with piles of gold. Every one was
drinking champagne, and for confusion
and riot the red letter days of Hombure
were not a marker to it. The careworu
Bowery man edged up to the table and
with a trembling hand rolled up a United
States bank bill to about the size Of q
walnut and threw IL on the red. The
wheel wa started on its noiseless circuit,
and the little ivory ball ratified around In
the opposite direction until it finally set
tltu III tuC DlhCk. lut DONtIl iuhi
picked the bill up and carelessly tossed II
to the dealer, who unfolded it and saw il
was q $50 bill.
The dealer smiled slightly, while the
Bowery man fumbled in his pocket fol-
more money. He drew another bill from
his inside pocket, crumpled into a bal
like the other one and dropped it on the
red. The ivory ball went hopping around
again, and this time 1t stopped in a rec
pocket. The Bowery man did not move
this time, and when the dealer unfoldet
the bill to see how much he had TO pay hi
found that it was one Of the 81, 900 demon
nation. He looked aghast, but there wa
nothing for it but to pay and look pleas
ant. He counted the money out, which
the Bowery mar pocketed as he took hi
leave. Fifteen minutes later the luck!
New Yorker was on the tug going to tn,
steamer out in the bay. He told a fellow
passenger how he had beaten the Panama
dealer. The first bill he laid down wa
also a $1,000 bill, but when he saw he hat
lost he picked IL up and tossed a $50 bill
which he had concealed In his hand to tn,
dealer and slipped the $1,000 one up hi
sleeve. He said it took a little practice Il
do this trick, but 1t was about as easy 9
way TO make $3.50 as he knew of, and hi
was on good terms with himself for the
next twenty-four hours.-Panama Cor
New York Sun.